Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini has enough public results to be ranked (#240); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 mini in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 30.6.
  • DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and GPT-4.1 mini specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index40.333.6
Released2024-05-072025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked1047

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%48.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
LMArena Coding—1367
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%—
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
Epoch Capabilities Index124.77135.01
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1349
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
LMArena Math—1343
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%
LMArena Expert—1338
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
MMLU78.4%—
TriviaQA80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English—1318
LMArena Chinese—1329
LMArena French—1358
LMArena German—1351
LMArena Japanese—1290
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Russian—1324
LMArena Spanish—1319

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
IFEval—90.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1333

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1344

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)GPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text—1340
LMArena Creative Writing—1300
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1354

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has enough public results to be ranked (#240); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and GPT-4.1 mini share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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